MAZZUCCO , A

Total failure of sternal fusion without other developmental anomalies of the chest and abdominal wall is rare. We report on a 52-year-old man with a total cleft sternum associated exclusively with an ostium secundum type atrial septal defect, a large cono-ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis, who underwent successful surgical repair...

Between January 1992 and June 1994, 23 patients underwent surgery for aortic valve endocarditis at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the University of Verona; a subgroup of 10 patients underwent aortic valve replacement with a porcine stentless valve (Biocor LTDA n = 8; Toronto SPV n = 2). There were 7 males and 3 females with a mean...

In recent years, the use of homograft tissue in cardiac surgery has increased so that supply is limited. Since October 1990, aortic and/or pulmonary valves were collected from 17 transplant recipients at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the University of Padova Medical School (11 male, 6 female, mean age 43.4 years, range 11 months...